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"Winter" Season for Clay Court Maintenance in South Florida
This short life-cycle review may help your staff deliver better playing conditions during the busiest time of year. Har-Tru is a very hard angular stone. The sharp edges of the particles can wear...
Closing Your Clay Courts for the Winter
Closing courts down for the winter is an annual procedure for some 60% of the US and all of Canada. Often it happens after members have switched to indoor play and after many pros and maintenance p...
A Simple Tip for a Playing Safely: Lower Your Touch Points
As we adjust and adapt to the new normal, it’s hard not to think of ways we can get back to playing the game we love, while taking into account social distancing and minimizing touch points. Whethe...
ClayTech 10 Years In - Finding a Sense of Place
Being a part of Har-Tru creates a rather deep, even profound, sense of place in tennis. Best as we can determine, the first patented, trademarked, and widely-circulated brand in tennis courts was ...
Har-Tru vs. HydroCourt for an Indoor Surface?
Indoor facilities offer a year-round opportunity to cater to a tennis population that likes the soft sliding surface characteristics of a clay court. The demand for play keeps some of these facili...
The Benefits of Playing on Clay
To succeed in tennis, players must be able to create and adapt, to attack and defend, to lose an agonizingly long point and still be ready for the next one. These attributes are best learned on clay.
While the bulk of us are basking (or gasping) in the dog days of summer, at least a few tennis facilities are starting to prep for the indoor tennis season. Depending on what part of the country yo...
Clay Courts and Surface Speed - Part 2
Let’s talk about the weather from the perspective of maintenance